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PRECEDENT: Law Court Rulings / Stare Decisis: Potentially More Consequential Than Statute, Can & Has Revolutionized How Law Is Practiced
Though dismissed by some on the World Wide Web as a local ordinance, the United States Constitution is "the supreme law of the land" within the United States. BUT !
The U.S. Constitution, statute, even a local ordinance can be validated or nullified by U.S. law court. AND !
Such law court ruling is not merely binding in that case. Due to the doctrine of Stare Decisis the precedent set by court ruling becomes law.
Obvious / familiar example Roe v. Wade, now overturned by Dobbs v. Jackson.
Today?
Two consequential law suits recognizing social media operators of Instagram & Facebook are liable for making their platforms addictive to teens.
World
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A New Mexico jury found Meta violated the state's consumer protection law related to child safety and ordered the company to pay $375 million US in civil penalties. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)
A New Mexico jury ruled Tuesday that Meta knowingly harmed children's mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms.
The jury determined Meta violated parts of the state's Unfair Practices Act by hiding what it knew about about the dangers of child sexual exploitation on its platforms and the impacts on child mental health, and engaged in "unconscionable" trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children.
Jurors found thousands of violations, each counting separately toward a penalty of $375 million US.
sta·re de·ci·sis
n.
The doctrine or principle that precedent should determine legal decision making in a case involving similar facts.
[Latin stāre dēcīsīs (et nōn quiēta movēre), to stand by things decided (and not to move things at rest), stāre, to stand, dēcīsīs, ablative neuter pl. of dēcīsus, past participle of dēcīdere, to decide; see DECIDE.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.
PRECEDENT: Law Court Rulings / Stare Decisis: Potentially More Consequential Than Statute, Can & Has Revolutionized How Law Is Practiced
Though dismissed by some on the World Wide Web as a local ordinance, the United States Constitution is "the supreme law of the land" within the United States. BUT !
The U.S. Constitution, statute, even a local ordinance can be validated or nullified by U.S. law court. AND !
Such law court ruling is not merely binding in that case. Due to the doctrine of Stare Decisis the precedent set by court ruling becomes law.
Obvious / familiar example Roe v. Wade, now overturned by Dobbs v. Jackson.
Today?
Two consequential law suits recognizing social media operators of Instagram & Facebook are liable for making their platforms addictive to teens.
World
Landmark verdict in New Mexico finds Meta violated state child safety laws
Company was ordered to pay $375M US for misleading users about the safety of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp
The Associated Press · Posted: Mar 24, 2026 5:19 PM EST | Last Updated: March 24Listen to this ~5 minute article
A New Mexico jury found Meta violated the state's consumer protection law related to child safety and ordered the company to pay $375 million US in civil penalties. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)
A New Mexico jury ruled Tuesday that Meta knowingly harmed children's mental health and concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms.
The jury determined Meta violated parts of the state's Unfair Practices Act by hiding what it knew about about the dangers of child sexual exploitation on its platforms and the impacts on child mental health, and engaged in "unconscionable" trade practices that unfairly took advantage of the vulnerabilities of and inexperience of children.
Jurors found thousands of violations, each counting separately toward a penalty of $375 million US.
sta·re de·ci·sis
n.
The doctrine or principle that precedent should determine legal decision making in a case involving similar facts.
[Latin stāre dēcīsīs (et nōn quiēta movēre), to stand by things decided (and not to move things at rest), stāre, to stand, dēcīsīs, ablative neuter pl. of dēcīsus, past participle of dēcīdere, to decide; see DECIDE.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2022 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved.